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NAME="PREVIOUS">8. Previous knowledge and system requirements</H1
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>You have to have some previous knowledge to follow this document:</P
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><EM
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>Very important:</EM
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You must know how to use the <EM
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>iptables</EM
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> package as a
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user, such as how to create or list rules and user chains. You do not need
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to be a firewall expert, but you should know how to use
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<EM
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>iptables</EM
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>I am using a <EM
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>2.4.16</EM
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<EM
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>SuSE 7.1</EM
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> Linux environment. You need
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<EM
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>2.4.x</EM
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> kernel code to follow this HOWTO, preferably kernel
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> you can
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get the kernel sources at
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>ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update</A
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>You have to know how to compile the kernel if you have to update your kernel
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version. After activating the netfilter options using
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must compile and install the kernel as usual.</P
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>Reboot your new kernel using <B
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>init 6</B
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>. Ensure that you
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backup a copy of your previous kernel in <EM
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>lilo</EM
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> in case
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you encounter a problem and need to retrace your steps.</P
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>Be sure that your new <EM
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> kernel is running fine.
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To install <EM
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>iptables-1.2.6</EM
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> you will need to patch the
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kernel again (and re-compile and install it), and it is better if you follow
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the previous two steps to ensure that your kernel is running right before
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applying new iptables patches.</P
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